LACUS Forum 24 (1997) articles

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LACUS Forum 24 was published in 1998

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I. Special Lectures

Invited Lecture: The Meaning-Text Approach to the Study of Natural Language and Linguistic Functional Models
Igor Mel’chuk
Presidents’ Post-Doctoral Prize: The Organization and Production of Narrative
Ming-Ming Pu

II. Phonetics and Phonology

The Invisible Consonants inCynghanedd Poetry
Toby D. Griffen
A Phonetic Basis for Cross-Language Patterns in Vowel Rounding
John T. Hogan
Underspecification and Feature Geometry: Theorems of a Reticular Theory of Language
William J. Sullivan
The Syllabic Status of Postvocalic Resonants: Evidence from Global Sound Similarity Judgements
Grace E. Wiebe

III. Syntax

The Dual Unselectivity of Adverbial-Quantifiers: The Case of Bella Coola
Inga Dolinina & David Beck
An Ergative-Absolutive Distinction in The Hungarian Verbal Complex
Arle R. Lommel
The (in)Explicable Duality of Being? On Two Types of Predicatives in Polish
Michal Pawica
Infinitival Subject Control and Corpus Evidence
Juhani Rudanko
The Psychological Reality of the Small Clause
Ian W. Wallace
Determinants of Relative Clause Heads in English
Darrell Williams

IV. Aspect

Discourse and the Making of Grammatical Particles
Lilly Chen
Four Kinds of Aspect
John Hewson
Presidents’ Predoctoral Commendation: Japanese Aspectual Compound Verbs and Transitivity
Tomiko Kodama

V. Semantics

Some as an Expression of Approximation in English: From Partitive to Approximative
Patrick J. Duffley
Alternating Semantic Polarities
Aya Katz
A Toughish Problem: The Meaning of -ish
Lori Morris
Why Isn’t Little the Opposite of Large? Antonymy and Semantic Range
Victoria Muhleisen
A Lucky Break
Charles Ruhl
Object Marker in Korean
Insun Yang

VI. Discourse Analysis

Lexical Repetition and the Given/New Distinction in Written English
Michael Cummings
Structuring and Signalling Topic Management
Angela Downing, Joanne Neff, Marta Carretero, Elena Martínez-Caro, Soledad, Pérez De Ayala, Juana Marín & José Simón
Expository Discourse Schema for Scholarly Electronic Messages
Shin Ja J. Hwang
Enabler-Enablement Relations in English
Michael P. Jordan
Stylistics: The Case for Thematic Roles Reopened
Carl Mills
Changes in the Mental Representation of Events over Time
Gary D. Prideaux
Discourse Functions as a Significant Variable in Do-Support Alternation in Shakespeare’s English
Lois M. Stanford & Sarah Tsiang-Starcevic

VII. Sociolinguistics and Language Contact

A Psycholinguistic Analysis of Code-Switching
Dina Belyayeva
Language Shift in Post-Apartheid South Africa: The Appeal of English
Vivian De Klerk & Barbara Bosch
Presidents’ Predoctoral Commendation: The Role of L1 Transfer in Language Change
Patrick André Mather
Narrative Strategies and Social Identity in Puerto Rican Spanish
Diane Ringer Uber

VIII. Historical Studies

The Reality of the Classification ‘Poetry’ for Old English
Janet Duthie Collins
The Lexical Incorporation and Grammaticalization of the Uto-Aztecan Word for ‘Hand’ in Tarahumara
James E. Copeland
Linguistics Applied
Carleton T. Hodge
Clitic Duplication in Western Romance: A Case of Grammaticalization
Michael Kliffer

IX. Theoretical, Metatheoretical, and Multidisciplinary Studies

Verbal Metaphors and Nonverbal Metaphorics: What Can They Teach Us?
Fabienne Baider & Agnès Romàn
On The “Logicist” Paradigm in Linguistics and Some of its Possible Alternatives
Ferenc Havás
Literacy Based upon the Letter Names
Saul Levin
Discourse Analysis: Its Continuing Relevance and its Relation to Cognitive Studies
Robert E. Longacre
Two Foundations for Linguistics Briefly Compared
Victor H. Yngve


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